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Disappearance of Simon Parkes. Simon Parkes (born 1968) was a radio operator (RO1 (G)) in the Royal Navy who went missing in Gibraltar in 1986. Parkes was serving aboard HMS Illustrious when he disappeared whilst on shore leave in the overseas territory. In 2001, Parkes' disappearance gained renewed interest when it was noted that convicted ...
Allan Grimson. Allan Michael Grimson (born 1958) [1] is a convicted British murderer and suspected serial killer who is responsible for murdering at least two Royal Navy sailors and who is suspected of killing many others, possibly up to another 20 undiscovered victims. The judge, who sentenced him to a minimum term of 22 years at his trial ...
HMS Monarch was the first seagoing British warship to carry her guns in turrets, and the first British warship to carry guns of 12-inch (300 mm) calibre. Design [ edit ] Diagrams showing location of gun turrets and armour protection, as depicted in Brassey's Naval Annual 1888 Monarch after her 1872 conversion to barque rig.
One such heroic cat was Simon, who famously guarded his soldiers aboard the HMS Amethyst, a guard ship deployed to protect the British Embassy in Nanjing, China, amidst the Chinese Civil War in 1949.
HMS. Minotaur. (1863) HMS Minotaur was the lead ship of the Minotaur -class armoured frigates built for the Royal Navy during the 1860s. Minotaur took nearly four years between her launching and commissioning because she was used for evaluations of her armament and different sailing rigs. The ship spent the bulk of her active career as flagship ...
Construction and career. Imperieuse was laid down at Portsmouth Royal Dockyard on 10 August 1881, launched on 18 December 1883, and completed in September 1886. She was the flagship of the China Station from 1889 to 1894 and the Pacific Station from 1896 to 1899. [5] She underwent extensive repairs at Chatham in early 1900.
Camilla (born Camilla Rosemary Shand, later Parker Bowles, 17 July 1947) is Queen of the United Kingdom and the 14 other Commonwealth realms as the wife of King Charles III. [note 1] Camilla was raised in East Sussex and South Kensington in England and educated in England, Switzerland, and France. In 1973, she married British Army officer ...
HMS. Neptune. (1874) HMS Neptune was an ironclad turret ship originally designed and built in Britain for Brazil, but acquired for the Royal Navy in 1878. Modifications to suit the Royal Navy took three years to complete and the ship did not begin her first commission until 1883 with the Channel Fleet. She was transferred to the Mediterranean ...